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News Roundup 13th September 2019

Facebook launches new influencer tools, US states launch Google probe, programmatic advertising revenue growth and Google’s expanded advert options Facebook is aiming to make its platform better for influencers and public figures with the release of new tools that could help them find new audiences. 48 out of 50 US states have joined together to […]

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Social media should co-operate on overseeing political advertising, expert tells Canadians

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Facebook and other social media platforms around the world need to use internationally-agreed upon standards for monitoring and taking down troublesome online political ads, according to a British expert. Sam Jeffers, a visiting global fellow at Ryerson University’s Leadership Lab and co-founder of the U.K. based service Who Targets Me, which monitors

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Italian media brand Freeda raises $16m for UK expansion

Italian media company Freeda has plans to ramp up operations in English-speaking countries. Milan-based media brand Freeda has raised $16m in Series B funding. The round was led by Alven, with participation from investor club U-Start. Endeavor Catalyst and UniCredit were also new investors in the company. Freeda is an Italian media brand. It was

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Facebook Will Spend $10 Million and Offer a Cash Prize to Detect Deepfakes

Facebook will offer a cash prize to the person or group that can build a next-generation way to detect deepfakes — and it’s even creating its own original deepfakes for participants to work with. The Deepfake Detection Challenge is a partnership between Facebook, Microsoft, the Partnership on AI, and academics. Facebook has put up $10

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Digital Trends Live: IFA Wrap-Up, Facebook Wants To Detect Deepfakes

On this episode of DT Live, hosts Greg Nibler and Riley Winn tackle the biggest trending stories in tech, including an IFA 2019 wrap-up, Facebook’s prize for detecting deepfakes, Apple Music’s web app, India’s effort to land on the moon, and more. Pregame founder Ciara Pressler later joins us for our new Work/Life segment, where

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News Roundup 6th September 2019

UK desktop ad viewability improvements, Google’s first-price auction rollout, Facebook’s political ad policies changes, YouTube’s inappropriate content removal update This week has brought with it the news that the UK is seeing great rates of desktop ad viewability, with viewability reaching a record high in the second quarter of the year – great news for

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Database with phone numbers of millions of Facebook users found on Internet

A server with databases holding the phone numbers and identity numbers of perhaps as many as 200 million Facebook users in the U.S., the U.K. and other countries has been found open on the Internet by a security researcher. No one knows who the database belongs to, how or when it was copied from Facebook,

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Facebook wants to combat deepfakes by making its own

With algorithmically-generated fabricated videos, otherwise called deepfakes, on the rise, Facebook is teaming up with Microsoft and seven academic institutions in the US for a Deepfake Detection Challenge. The contest — meant to develop technology for detecting deepfakes and prevent people from falling prey to misinformation — is expected to from late 2019 until spring of

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Facebook introduces ‘Dating’ feature to US market

Facsebook Inc. is vying to overtake dating apps in the U.S. after releasing its own service here Thursday. The company said that after testing the feature in a number of countries since 2018, the service will roll out to American lonely hearts. In a blog post, Facebook said the feature will already know interests, groups, events

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